SpaceX Starlink satellites leak radio signals 10,000 times stronger than cosmic signals, threatening SKA-Low telescope's hunt for 13-billion-year-old hydrogen emissions across protected astronomy frequencies in Australia

Starlink's Signal Leakage Is Threatening Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

Curtin University study finds SpaceX hardware leakage up to 10,000 times stronger than the cosmic signals SKA-Low must detectAstronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic leakage from SpaceX satellites. Not the broadband beams Starlink intentionally tran...